Arabia

From a famous Arabic manuscript of Abd al-Kafir from the year 1587, coffee consumption is reported.

Another contemporary report is interpreted as saying that the Sheikh Gemaleddin, Mufti of Aden, had cultivated coffee cultures in Yemen in 1454, for which Arabica seeds had been taken from the Abyssinian mountains.

Via Mecca and Medina, coffee came to Cairo in 1510 by traveling pilgrims.

Europe

1650 followed Oxford, 1652 London, 1659 Marseille, 1663 Amsterdam and The Hague. In 1672 the Parisians also had their first cafe.

In 1673, there was the first coffee house on German ground in Bremen, followed in 1677 in Hamburg, Berlin in 1721.

1683 In front of Vienna, the Turks were defeated. Franz Georg Kolschitzky, who had acquired great services around the city during the siege of Vienna by the Turks, received as a present the leftover coffee and the permission to dispense coffee.

Asia

The first planting outside of Africa and Arabia took place in Ceylon in 1648 by the Dutch.